 ... in the infancy of plantation, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state, because people were then more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly through oppression of business and other straits...  Polyanthos - Page 1481806Full view - About this book
 | 1815 - 412 pages
...part mistaken, but withal professed that it was his judgment, that, in the jni'iim- v of plantations, justice should be, administered with more lenity than in a, settled state, because people were tUea more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1825 - 456 pages
...part mistaken ; but withal professed, that it was his judgment, that, in the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state, because people were then more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1825 - 456 pages
...part mistaken; but withal professed, that it was his judgment, that, in the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state, because people were then more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 336 pages
...for obvious reasons, which he recorded, and perhaps suggested. — See his Journal, i., 324. — H.] thus : " Friend, it is a cold winter, and I hear you...than in a settled state.* But when other gentlemen of learning and influence had taken offence at his lenity, and adopted an opinion that a stricter discipline... | |
 | Jacob Bailey Moore - 1851 - 456 pages
...welcome to help yourself at my pile till the winter is over;" and * Savage's Winthrop, i. 62. then he merrily asked his friend whether he had not put a...administered with more lenity than in a settled state. Complaints of the liberal spirit of Governor Winthrop were made at a meeting of some of the leading... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1853 - 538 pages
...had been in part mistaken ; but withal professed, that it was his judgment, that in the infancy of plantation, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state, because people were then more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 732 pages
...vice, yet his practice was according to his judgment thus expressed: "In the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state; because people are more apt then to transgress ; partly out of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 676 pages
...vice, yet his practice was according to his judgment thus expressed: "In the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state ; because people are more apt then to transgress; partly out of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 680 pages
...vice, yet his practice was according to his judgment thus expressed: "In the infancy of plantations, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state ; because people are more apt then to transgress ; partly out of ignorance of new laws and orders,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1858 - 696 pages
...had been in part mistaken ; but withal professed that it was his judgment, that, in the infancy of plantation, justice should be administered with more lenity than in a settled state, because then people were more apt to transgress, partly of ignorance of new laws and orders, partly... | |
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